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Single Men’s Cabins, Mason City
Mason City (Wash.) [town]
Housing for single men employed by Mason Walsh Atkinson Kier (MWAK). Mason City was the contractor’s town located downstream from the dam site.
Hubert Blonk

Single Men’s Cabins, Mason City
Mason City (Wash.) [town]
Mason City was the contractor’s town located on the east bank of the Columbia below the dam site.
Hubert Blonk

White, Virginia L.
City Council members -- Washington (State) -- Cheney – Interviews; Public welfare – Washington (State) – Spokane County; Community development; Community welfare councils – United States; Women’s rights – United States – History –...
Oral history interview transcript with Virginia White. Her topics include the Cheney City Council and the Cheney Community Service Council.
Women of a Small College Town

City limit sign asking drivers to slow down and respect the law
Automobiles; Automobile travel -- Washington (State) -- Photographs; National Parks Highway Association -- Photograph collections; Inland Automobile Association -- Photograph collections; Guilbert, Frank W., -- d. 1940 -- Photograph collections;...
City limit sign asking drivers to slow down and respect the law. This sign was located along the route of the National Parks Highway Association tour. The tour began on June 4, 1916 and was to last 33 days and cover 3,100 miles. The tour officially...
Inland Automobile Association

Ephemeral Lake and lateral cataract recess, 9 miles north of Coulee City along eastern wall
Geology -- Washington (State)
View of Ephemeral Lake and lateral cataract recess, 9 miles north of Coulee City along eastern wall
Otis Willard Freeman Photograph Collection

Thomas, Crooks, and McGinn with Children at Mason City
Police -- Washington (State) – History; Washington State Patrol -- History.
Two boys, posed with State Patrol Troopers and panel truck No. 15 at Mason City. Troopers identified, left to right: Thomas, Les; Crooks, Jack; and McGinn, F. D.
Hubert Blonk

McGinn and Neilson
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Police -- Washington (State) -- History.
McGinn and Neilson in the "Mason City Office" - the police department at Mason City.
Hubert Blonk

Airplane view of Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Mason City (Wash.) [town]
Aerial view of the project showing Mason City, and work under way on the coffer dam.
Hubert Blonk

Construction Towns
Mason City (Wash.) [town]
The “Government Town” in the foreground, and the “Contractor’s Town” across the river, in the background. Mason City, the contractor’s town, was named for Silas B. Mason.
Hubert Blonk

Mason City
Mason City (Wash.) [town]
The temporary town built to house some of the contractor’s employees working on Grand Coulee Dam.
Hubert Blonk

Building the Contractor’s Railroad
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction; Scrapers (Earthmoving machinery) ; Horse-drawn vehicles -- History
Construction of the temporary railroad from Coulee City to the dam site utilized methods common a half century earlier when the Northern Pacific built its branch to Coulee City. Horse drawn fresno scrapers are being used to grade the roadbed.
Hubert Blonk

Billings, Shirley
Oral History; Cheney Women - Interviews; Zoning - United States; Municipal government by commission; City Planning - United States; Planning Commissions - Washington - Cheney; League of Women Voters; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - United States
Oral history interview transcript with Shirley Billings and her topic concerns the Cheney planning commission and her involvement with it.
Women of a Small College Town

St. John's Cathedral construction
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Spokane, Wash.); Church architecture -- Washington (State)
Photograph of the construction of St. John's Cathedral in Spokane Washington. Photograph shows a distant view from the north of the cathedral partially completed. Construction was halted at this stage in 1929 as a result of the stock market...
Harold C. Whitehouse Ecclesiastical Architecture

Snoqualmie Falls
Waterfalls; Washington (State) -- Snoqualmie -- History;
Snoqualmie Falls is a 268 ft (82 m) waterfall on the Snoqualmie River between Snoqualmie and Fall City, Washington, USA.
Communities of the Inland Northwest

Snoqualmie Falls, Washington
Waterfalls; Washington (State) -- Snoqualmie -- History;
Snoqualmie Falls is a 268 ft (82 m) waterfall on the Snoqualmie River between Snoqualmie and Fall City, Washington, USA.
Communities of the Inland Northwest

Senior Breakfast
Eastern Washington College of Education -- Students; College students -- Washington (State) -- Cheney -- Photographs; Students
Photograph showing the view of the Eastern Washington College of Education (currently Eastern Washington University) campus looking toward the City of Cheney from the roof of the Administration Building [Showalter Hall.]
EWU Student Life and Activities

Giles, Edith
Eastern Washington College of Education - students; College students -- Washington (State) -- Cheney -- Photographs; Students
Photograph of Edith Giles, from Pine City, Washington. Taken on the front steps of Martin Hall on the campus of Eastern Washington College of Education (currently Eastern Washington University).
EWU Individuals

Cheney, Washington - view of buildings on First Street
Cheney (Wash.) -- History; Buildings; Carts & wagons; False fronts;
Photograph shows men and boys in period dress posed with wagons, carts, and horses in front of numerous buildings on First Street in Cheney, Washington. Many of the buildings have the false fronts common to the period. Included in the buildings is...
Historic Images of Cheney, WA

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